tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1234210688410580216.post984699291558102365..comments2023-08-16T06:30:50.784-06:00Comments on daily montana ...: Steamboat days ...Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691529739021575052noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1234210688410580216.post-72719594783984554732012-03-07T15:59:24.644-07:002012-03-07T15:59:24.644-07:00The same steamboat was the last to pass the Lower ...The same steamboat was the last to pass the Lower Yellowstone Diversion Dam construction site at Intake, MT, on August 25, 1909. Intake is downstream from Glendive. Until then she was in limited service as far upstream as Forsyth in spite of the railroad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1234210688410580216.post-4606925859959317972009-07-29T20:55:47.171-06:002009-07-29T20:55:47.171-06:00I definitely need to add "research Yellowston...I definitely need to add "research Yellowstone River steamboats" to my to do list ... along with "research historic bridges in Glendive."<br /><br />Maybe you need to start writing that miniseries? :)<br /><br />And I'll add both those things to my impossibly-long reading list. They both sound worthwhile ... thanks!Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08691529739021575052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1234210688410580216.post-64731490728595502222009-07-28T10:45:41.253-06:002009-07-28T10:45:41.253-06:00I can see the differences after comparing photos t...I can see the differences after comparing photos this a.m. The first bridge (1897) at Benton was a swing span that was destroyed in 1908.<br /><br />What a trip indeed...most of the Patrick Colony were 'deck passengers' and apparently there were close to 100 of them, from 17 different families from Missouri, that Patrick had cajoled/helped (conned?) into pioneering. The story would make Angharodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00046574861259330950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1234210688410580216.post-48901804112063422622009-07-28T07:29:51.901-06:002009-07-28T07:29:51.901-06:00Yeah, seeing that bridge in the photo kind of trou...Yeah, seeing that bridge in the photo kind of troubled me, too. It's a very standard design for the era, but I don't think Glendive got its first Yellowstone River bridge until the 1890s, which would make that photo a relatively late one as far as the Yellowstone riverboats go. Still, I don't know that there's any reason to disbelieve the writing on the image, which was probably Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08691529739021575052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1234210688410580216.post-68240918871325394442009-07-27T21:36:27.085-06:002009-07-27T21:36:27.085-06:00Oddly enough...to me that looks like the old railr...Oddly enough...to me that looks like the old railroad bridge in Fort Benton in the background. Most of my blood rellies came up the river from St. Louis on a couple different boats, arriving in June of 1882...I don't know when the railroad bridge was even built. But the arrival of the "Patrick Colony" was quite an infamous event.Angharodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00046574861259330950noreply@blogger.com